I'm just glad to hear someone's MAKING money with Linux. There have been enough catastrophes in the last few years around open source software business models. It's good to see someone making a buck. 'sides, I get tired of the "HP does more Linux" and "Compaq did Linux first" and "IBM puts the most money into Linux" ads. Sell me a notebook with Linux and support the darned thing already.
-- -j John Beamon On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jerald Sheets wrote: > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 17:34:01 -0500 > From: Jerald Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of -ray > > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:49 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Doug Riddle wrote: > > > till Gerstner > > took over in the 90's that they changed focus from moving proprietary > > mainframes out of the warehouse to moving money into their > > bank account. And if you think IBM's Linux initiative is in > > good faith, well... ask any > > IBM manager about it, and he'll say "it makes good business sense". > > Translation: "we can make money off of Linux". But i think they are > > making a lot of good choices, and if they can make money off of Linux > > and open source, more power to them. > > > --I don't care who makes money anymore. When I can pick up a mainframe > with Linux390 (Zos is no longer needed) for less that half a mil instead > of the mil or two they used to cost with limited (in comparison) monthly > maintenance. Whether IBM returns to their dominance or not, we are > benefiting in the systems community. > > Go, IBM. > > --jms > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
